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🔴 BREAKING: Russia fired a missile at the border of NATO. A ballistic missile which was fired from a Russian war ship landed in Zouf, West Idlib at the Syrian – Turkish border causing an huge explosion. No reports of casualties as of yet.

🔴 Also local sources are now reporting that several Turkish soldiers were killed due a SAA ballistic missle attack in the village of al-Zurf near Jisr al-Shoghour.

🔴 State Dept US state dept spox: “The U.S. is concerned over reports from Afrin City, Syria. The U.S. calls on all relevant actors operating in the northwest, including Turkey, Russia & the Syrian Regime, to provide access for international humanitarian organizations.” – state.gov

🔴 The South Korean Foreign Minister has reported that Kim Jong-Un has “given his word” on de-nuclearization, adding that it’s the first time the words have come directly from the North Korean leader. – EURONEWS

🔴 SKRIPAL CASE SHOWS LONDON’S READINESS FOR ANY TRICKS TO DISTRACT BRITISH PUBLIC FROM ITS FAILURES AT BREXIT DEAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH EU – IFX QUOTES RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY

🔴 Assad forces sent more fighters and military support to Abu Kamal desert.

🔴 Russia’s 6th Combined Arms Army (Agalatovo HQ, Leningrad Region, Western Military District) alert and combat readiness exercises. We wait to see if other CAAs are put on alert in other regions/districts. – function.mil.ru

🔴 CNN: A helicopter carrying Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner had to return to an airport in Washington Thursday after one of its engines failed. The couple was flying from DC to NYC Thursday afternoon in a two engine helicopter when one engine failed. ...classic CIA? 😆

🔴 Russia’s state TV:

🔘 Kremlin propagandist says that Novichok was developed in the USSR, not Russia.
🔘 MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova previously said Novichok was not developed either in Russia or the USSR.
🔘 Russian gov’t said all of its stock of Novichok has been destroyed.

🔴 The two generals responsible for the Novichok program. Colonel General Vladimir Pikalov(commander of the Soviet chemical troops) and his deputy, Major General Anatoly Kuntsevich. Photo by H. Devreij

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• Rex Tillerson is removed from the State Department along with his deputy.
• Mike Pompeo moves from CIA to take up Rex’s position.
• Gina Haspel is picked to head the CIA.
• UK blames Russia for using ultra rare Novichok nerve agent against a former Russian spy living in the UK.
• 23 Russia diplomates were kicked out of the UK.
• NATO nations condemn Russia for the first use of chemical weapons on allied soil.
• US has imposed new sanctions on Russia.
• Britain, France, and Germany propose new EU sanctions on Iran.
• Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia said, “will develop a nuclear bomb if Iran builds nuclear weapons”
• F-18 crashed near Naval Air Station Key West, 2 dead.
• Russia’s Vladimir Putin wins fourth Kremlin term with 73.9% of vote, according to an exit poll. In another hotly contested presidential election, Russian President Vladimir Putin wins a 4th term.

2. Russia as well has boosted its naval resources there including nuclear submarines.

3. Trump and Macron (and possibly May as well now) are pissed off big time with what is going down in Goutha and have lost patience.

4. There is chatter that French journalists have been urged to STOP all travel in Syria while UN officials have been advised to leave Damascus urgently within 48 hours.

5. Also there seems to be dramatic conversations taking place between U.S and Russian military officials: U.S has informed them on the planned strikes but Gerasimov has threatend to take out the U.S warships if Assad or Russian troops hit.

6. Keep in mind that resolute military action which could target Assad and the regime himself will give Trump a lot more credibility when meeting with North Korea’s KIM.

7. Also, with Tillerson silenced there is effectively a diplomatic vacuum from the U.S in communicating with world powers which opens a window for military action.

8. And of course, NATO has enough with Putin. Now, another 4 years? Many will like the idea to give him a bloody nose for to deter him at the beginning of his 4th term.

– War Map Ghouta:
44,000 civilians have left East Ghouta through humanitarian corridors. The Syrian army has taken Saqba & KafrBatna after fierce clashes. – by Maxim Mansour

– Russian spy poisoning: chemist says non-state actor couldn’t carry out attack Vil Mirzayanov, who worked with the chemical novichok under Soviets for 30 years, says even he would not know how to weaponize it. The Russian chemist who revealed the existence of the novichok family of chemical agents to the world has dismissed the notion that a non-state actor could be behind the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England, earlier this month.- The Guardian

– BREAKING: Turkish army started a comprehensive assault on Afrin from all fronts.

– According to SPIEGEL information, the ruthenium cloud, which appeared in 2017, can be traced back to a serious incident about which Russia remains silent until today.The Greens condemn that, they call for a reform of the rapid alert system.

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– BREAKING: Polls have opened in Russia’s Far East for the presidential election in which Vladimir Putin seeks a 4th term.

– BREAKING: Russian General Staff on US military deployments near Syria:“We note the evidence of preparation for possible attacks. Strike groups of naval carriers with cruise missiles are being formed in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean, in the Persian Gulf and in the Red Sea.”

– US Troops Who Came Under Fire From Russian Mercenaries Prepare For Mor Attacks. – NBC

– American General In Syria Confirms US Forces Killed Hundreds Of Russians In Massive Battle. US Army Brigadier General Jonathan Braga also said he was “absolutely worried” the situation could have escalated in a bigger conflict. – timeinc.net

– The latest work from NS Archive about the discussions between US and Russia on NATO expansion. – nsarchive.gwv.edu

– Trump on Twitter: Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI – A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!

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– Trump on Twitter: Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI – A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI !

– Picture of the day: When Putin offers you tea… but you’re alergic to POLINIUM-210 😆

– BREAKING: FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabewill be FIRED today. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday night shot down reports that President Trump has made up his mind to fire H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser – a move long rumored. …McMaster later on. 😆 – washingtontimes.com

– General Carter said that Russia could “initiate hostilities sooner than we expect” and warned of their information warfare capabilities. – ukdefencejournal.org

– “Today, In Syria we are confronted once more by some of the worst atrocities known to man.” – White House Nat Sec Adviset LTG HR McMaster says during speech Holocaust Museum marking 7th anniversary of Syrian conflict.

– “We, the leaders of France, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom, abhor the attack that took place against Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury”. – gov.uk

– LATEST: All 7 people aboard U.S. HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter that went down in western Iraq are U.S. Air Force airmen. The crash is believed to be the first fatal helicopter crash in Iraq since the U.S. began fighting ISIS there in 2014.

– BREAKING: a bridge under construction on Florida college campus collapses.
An number of people and cars were trapped underneath the bridge, the exact amount is unknown.
A Miami Herald reporter tweeted that cops believe the collapse caused “mass casualties.”

– “We have no bloody nose strategy” for striking the DPRK, says Pacific Command Commander Adm. Harry Harris, who adds that such action “is not contemplated.”

– John Bolton – US ambassador to the UN: “Those content with living with a nuclear North Korea have argued that it can be contained and deterred like the Soviet Union during the Cold War. This assessment is deeply flawed.”

“As a recent U.N. report shows, there are serious problems in the enforcement of international sanctions against Pyongyang and Damascus, with serious violations by China, Russia and Iran.”

– Britain, France, Germany and US, in joint statement, condemn “first offensive use” of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War.

– Putin and the Security Council of Russia are extremely concerned about the destructive position of Britain in the case of Skripal – Peskov (Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia). – TASS News Agency.

– “The Russian Bear must find himself chasing his tail in his lair rather than snarling unchallenged in the face of the West.”
Submarines are the Answer to Alleged Kremlin Transgressions
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s vow in the House of Commons that Russia would receive a “robust response” from the UK if it had a hand in the attempted assassination in Salisbury of an ex-military intelligence officer (and one-time double agent) would not have caused much fear in Moscow. – iainballanttne.com

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– Stephen Hawking died on Albert Einstein’s birthday. And both renowned physicists died at age 76.

Cosmic coincidence ?

– Remembering Stephen Hawking, a renowned physicist and ambassador of science. His theories unlocked a universe of possibilities that we & the world are exploring. May you keep flying like superman in microgravity, as you said to astronauts on Space Station in 2014 NASA.

– As a result of the latest developments, the Hybrid War, heretofore a US-Russian phenomenon, has expanded to include Britain. A consequential evolution…

– “The United States believes that Russia is responsible for the attack on 2 people in the United Kingdom using a military grade nerve agent.” per US Amb to UN Nikki Haley“The United States stands in absolutely solidarity w/Great Britain.”

– Boris Johnson: “International community standing in solidarity with UK against Russian aggression. Spoke Jens Stoltenberg last night and welcome strong NATO support in response to blatant disregard for international rules and agreements by Russia using military-grade nerve agent in UK”

– France fully backs NATO statement voicing solidarity with UK and concern over first offensive use of nerve agent on Alliance territory since NATO’s foundation. Chemical Weapons are “a threat to international peace and security” – uk.anbafrance.org

– Russia response to UK expulsion of 23 diplomats:“It’s absolutely unacceptable & unworthy of British Government to seek to further seriously aggravate relations in pursuit of its unseemly political ends, having announced a whole series of hostile measures,incl. expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats from UK.”

– “The West began an operation to remove the Russian Federation from the UN Security Council”, said Senator Kalashnikov / RIA. – Russia

– Nikolai Glushkov’s cause of death was not immediately known. London’s Metropolitan Police said the death was “currently being treated as an unexplained.”

– How Nerve Agent Works 1/2:
Most bind onto Acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme that breaks down Acetylcholine. Acetylcholine is the chemical responsible for “switching” muscle activity on and off in the body. As the Nerve agents bind to the esterase, it changes it’s chemical structure.

– 2/2 thus muscles continue to contract until the diaphragm, which controls breathing stops functioning, causing the victim to essentially choke to death, among many other symptoms. Keep in mind, this is a fairly simplistic explanation.
Nerve agents are a complex subject, and the chemistry behind each one is distinct. Organophosphates are typically the active ingredients in the chemicals, and are present in many heavy-duty industrial pesticides.

– Russia Embassy: “We consider this hostile action as totally unacceptable, unjustified and shortsighted.
All the responsibility for the deterioration of the Russia-UK relationship lies with the current political leadership of Britain.” – BBC

– CNN reports Tillerson was in fact booted over North Korea. Which doesn’t bode well for the upcoming “summit” – if it even happens now.

– WASHINGTON: The woman tapped to be the United States’ first female spymaster is proving to be a lightning rod, earning praise from many from across the intelligence community and suspicion from lawmakers and others who question her role in the use of tactics that some say amounted to torture.

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted his choice of Gina Haspel to run the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday, taking over for outgoing CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who has been nominated to lead the State Department.

MIKE POMEO, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job ! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all !

– Also, Trump personal assistant John McEntee was escorted out of the White House on Monday, reports Michael C. Bender, quoting two senior administration officials. The cause of the firing was an unspecified security issue, according to another official.

– UPDATE: Russia denies any role in poisoning of Sergei Skripal as the US, NATO and the EU have all backed Britain in the deepening diplomatic crisis. – AFP

– Britain says Sergei Skripal was poisoned with Novichok, which was developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 80s.

– Head of Russia’s Gen. Staff V. Gerasimov: Militants preparing a provocation with the use of Chemical Weapons in Syria’s Ghouta to justify US strike against Damascus. Russia will respond with certain measure to both “missiles” &“launchers” which are delivering these.

– Russian Army Chief of Staff: Russia to retaliate if potential future US strikes to Damascus cause “danger to Russian military that is deployed in [the] area”.

– U.S. submarines break through the ice as part of an exercise to expand operational readiness in the Arctic.

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– Russia President Vladimir Putin’s claims any hackers who meddled US Election 2016 not connection to the Kremlin ? “That’s false” per CIA Dir Mike Pompeo “The Russians attempted to interfere in the United States elections.”

– Sec Def Mattis: “They are Assad’s partner and whether the airplane dropping the bomb is a Russian airplane or a Syria airplane, I’d prefer not to say right now.”

– Sec Def Mattis: “We have made it very clear that it would be very unwise to use gas against people, civilians on any battlefield. Russia was the framework guarantor that Assad would get rid of all of it. Again, either Russia is incompetent or in cahoots with Assad.”

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